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Accessibility

Hiscox is committed to ensuring our online products and services are accessible to everyone.

Web accessibility policy

Hiscox is committed to ensuring our online products and services are accessible to everyone, regardless of their ability. Providing an accessible website has a positive effect on general usability and we believe that websites that are accessible and usable benefit everyone.

We will continue to review, test and modify our website and any future releases of the site, for web accessibility issues and aim to ensure that this is an ongoing commitment.

Web accessibility standards

We are aiming to design this site to conform with web accessibility guidelines.

We also try to ensure that:

All images in our sites contain appropriate alternate text

Pages and images on this website are optimised to load quickly and smoothly

All foreground and background colours are checked to ensure sufficient contrast, or given alternative text in the case of images

Our content is written clearly, concisely, free of jargon and in plain English

All pages use headings

All ‘calls to action’ highlighted with icons and/or different colour font or underlined

Symbols (e.g. >) are used in context and for their semantic use

Consistent navigation and page layouts are used

All forms are navigable using a keyboard

We have submit buttons on all forms

We use cascading style sheets to control layout and presentation

We use JavaScript (a scripting language widely used in website development) to deliver an enhanced user experience for things like rollover menus and conditional content visibility. Google has further information on how to enable JavaScript.

If you have a question about web accessibility or feedback about our website please contact us on 020 7448 6000 or email us at: customerservices@hiscox.com.